公开(公告)号：US06178503B1

公开(公告)日：2001-01-23

申请号：US09152222

申请日：1998-09-11

申请人： Paul E Madden ,  Jasper C Pan ,  Robert S Raymond

发明人： Paul E Madden ,  Jasper C Pan ,  Robert S Raymond

IPC分类号： G06F1577

CPC分类号： G06F9/441 ,  G06F1/24

摘要： The invention addresses the management of multiple operating systems on a single computer and other boot-time problems. A boot-time graphical user interface is described, including support for menus, tabs, non-ASCII characters, and other graphical user interface components in the pre-boot environment. Approaches to organizing the storage and selection of multiple operating system are also presented, including the use of multiple directories which are identified in operating system boot sectors.

摘要翻译： 本发明解决了在单个计算机上的多个操作系统的管理和其他引导时问题。 描述了引导时图形用户界面，包括在预引导环境中支持菜单，选项卡，非ASCII字符以及其他图形用户界面组件。 还介绍了组织多操作系统存储和选择的方法，包括使用在操作系统启动扇区中标识的多个目录。

公开(公告)号：US5675769A

公开(公告)日：1997-10-07

申请号：US393805

申请日：1995-02-23

申请人： Eric J. Ruff ,  Robert S. Raymond ,  Scot Llewelyn

发明人： Eric J. Ruff ,  Robert S. Raymond ,  Scot Llewelyn

IPC分类号： G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/02

CPC分类号： G06F3/0607 ,  G06F3/0644 ,  G06F3/0676

摘要： A method allows manipulation of disk partitions defined by an IBM-compatible partition table. The disk partitions may be located on one or more disks attached to one or more disk drives. Each partition has an associated file system type, such as FAT or HPFS. An interrupted manipulation may be resumed at a point in the progress of the manipulation near the point of interruption. Available manipulations include verifying the integrity of a partition's file system structures; displaying information about a partition; moving a partition to a different location; resizing a partition; and converting a partition from one file system to another file system. The resizing step is illustrated with particular reference to HPFS file systems and FAT file systems. The details required to perform these manipulations are attended to by an implementing program that requires only general direction from a user. Thus, the present invention provides a method that allows users who are unfamiliar with technical intricacies to easily manipulate IBM-compatible disk partitions, including extended partitions and logical partitions.

摘要翻译： 一种方法允许操作由IBM兼容的分区表定义的磁盘分区。 磁盘分区可能位于连接到一个或多个磁盘驱动器的一个或多个磁盘上。 每个分区都有相关的文件系统类型，如FAT或HPFS。 可以在中断点附近的操作进程中恢复中断的操作。 可用的操作包括验证分区的文件系统结构的完整性; 显示有关分区的信息; 将分区移动到不同的位置; 调整分区大小 并将分区从一个文件系统转换为另一个文件系统。 具体参考HPFS文件系统和FAT文件系统说明了调整大小的步骤。 执行这些操作所需的细节由仅需要用户的一般方向的实现程序来处理。 因此，本发明提供了一种允许不熟悉技术复杂性的用户容易地操纵包括扩展分区和逻辑分区在内的IBM兼容磁盘分区的方法。

公开(公告)号：US06802028B1

公开(公告)日：2004-10-05

申请号：US08948931

申请日：1997-10-10

申请人： Eric J. Ruff ,  Robert S. Raymond

发明人： Eric J. Ruff ,  Robert S. Raymond

IPC分类号： G06F1100

CPC分类号： G06F21/562 ,  G06F21/567

摘要： Methods and systems are provided for detecting viruses in a computer system without relying on possibly infected system software or a possibly infected standard BIOS. The invention uses a separate BIOS designed specifically for virus detection and removal. This trusted BIOS is tailored to the controller hardware. The invention can detect viruses by detecting inconsistencies between results returned by the standard BIOS and results obtained using the trusted BIOS. The invention may also provide a virus remover. The virus remover relocates facade structures to their proper location, reconstructs boot sectors and Master Boot Records, and otherwise removes viruses.

摘要翻译： 提供了用于在计算机系统中检测病毒的方法和系统，而不依赖于可能感染的系统软件或可能感染的标准BIOS。 本发明使用专门设计用于病毒检测和删除的单独的BIOS。 该受信任的BIOS是针对控制器硬件量身定制的。 本发明可以通过检测标准BIOS返回的结果与使用可信BIOS获得的结果之间的不一致来检测病毒。 本发明还可以提供病毒去除剂。 病毒清除程序将门面结构重新定位到正确的位置，重建引导扇区和主引导记录，否则删除病毒。

公开(公告)号：US06453383B1

公开(公告)日：2002-09-17

申请号：US09374556

申请日：1999-08-13

申请人： Theron M. Stoddard ,  Blaine S. Dennis ,  Robert S. Raymond

发明人： Theron M. Stoddard ,  Blaine S. Dennis ,  Robert S. Raymond

IPC分类号： G06F1202

CPC分类号： G06F3/0607 ,  G06F3/0608 ,  G06F3/0644 ,  G06F3/0674 ,  G06F3/0676 ,  Y10S707/99953 ,  Y10S707/99956

摘要： Methods and systems are provided for manipulating data in segmented environments such as an instance of a NetWare file system. Unlike the conventional approach that relies on FDISK and the install.nlm and nwconfig.nlm utilities in NetWare, the invention does not destroy user data on the disk after the data is copied to tape or other intermediate storage. Segment-related features such as limits on the number of segments; various configurations of segments, volumes and partitions among drives; and data mirroring, are handled by the invention during “in place” manipulations. Segments, volumes, partitions, and segment clusters or blocks may each be resized. Segments may be merged. Volumes may be consolidated on a single drive. Other manipulations and various combinations of manipulations are also provided.

摘要翻译： 提供了方法和系统，用于在诸如NetWare文件系统的实例的分段环境中操纵数据。 与依靠FDISK和NetWare中的install.nlm和nwconfig.nlm实用程序的常规方法不同，本发明在将数据复制到磁带或其他中间存储器后不会破坏磁盘上的用户数据。 分段相关功能，如分段数限制; 驱动器之间的段，卷和分区的各种配置; 和数据镜像，由本发明在“就地”操作中处理。 分段，卷，分区和分段集群或块可以分别调整大小。 细分可能会合并。 卷可以合并在单个驱动器上。 还提供了其他操作和各种操作组合。

公开(公告)号：US06178487B1

公开(公告)日：2001-01-23

申请号：US08900086

申请日：1997-07-24

申请人： Eric J. Ruff ,  Robert S. Raymond ,  Scot Llewelyn

发明人： Eric J. Ruff ,  Robert S. Raymond ,  Scot Llewelyn

IPC分类号： G06F1314

CPC分类号： G06F3/0607 ,  G06F3/0644 ,  G06F3/0676

摘要： A method allows manipulation of disk partitions defined by an IBM-compatible partition table. The disk partitions may be located on one or more disks attached to one or more disk drives. Each partition has an associated file system type, such as FAT or HPFS. An interrupted manipulation may be resumed at a point in the progress of the manipulation near the point of interruption. Available manipulations include verifying the integrity of a partition's file system structures; displaying information about a partition; moving a partition to a different location; resizing a partition; and converting a partition from one file system to another file system. The resizing step is illustrated with particular reference to HPFS file systems and FAT file systems. The details required to perform these manipulations are attended to by an implementing program that requires only general direction from a user. Thus, the present invention provides a method that allows users who are unfamiliar with technical intricacies to easily manipulate IBM-compatible disk partitions, including extended partitions and logical partitions.

摘要翻译： 一种方法允许操作由IBM兼容的分区表定义的磁盘分区。 磁盘分区可能位于连接到一个或多个磁盘驱动器的一个或多个磁盘上。 每个分区都有相关的文件系统类型，如FAT或HPFS。 可以在中断点附近的操作进程中恢复中断的操作。 可用的操作包括验证分区的文件系统结构的完整性; 显示有关分区的信息; 将分区移动到不同的位置; 调整分区大小 并将分区从一个文件系统转换为另一个文件系统。 具体参考HPFS文件系统和FAT文件系统说明了调整大小的步骤。 执行这些操作所需的细节由仅需要用户的一般方向的实现程序来处理。 因此，本发明提供了一种允许不熟悉技术复杂性的用户容易地操纵包括扩展分区和逻辑分区在内的IBM兼容磁盘分区的方法。

公开(公告)号：US6108697A

公开(公告)日：2000-08-22

申请号：US165532

申请日：1998-10-02

申请人： Robert S Raymond ,  Blaine S Dennis ,  Eric J Ruff

发明人： Robert S Raymond ,  Blaine S Dennis ,  Eric J Ruff

IPC分类号： G06F3/06 ,  G06F9/06 ,  G06F12/00 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G06F13/00

CPC分类号： H04L67/06 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L69/04 ,  H04L69/329

摘要： Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and signal formats are provided for transferring disk images from a transmitting computer to one or more downloading computers. The transfer is done in a manner that allows a technician to start the download to one computer while preparing a second computer for downloading or shutting down a third computer after it has finished downloading the disk image. The computers need not wait for the beginning of a data stream but can instead join the download at specified points within the data stream. This reduces the time spent waiting to begin the download, particularly when the disk image being transferred is large. Compression and connection selection may be performed in response to changes in network performance. Image file packing and error management techniques may also be used, as well as on-the-fly file system instance manipulations.

摘要翻译： 提供了方法，系统，制品和信号格式，用于将磁盘图像从发送计算机传送到一个或多个下载计算机。 传输是在允许技术人员在准备第二台计算机以便下载或关闭第三台计算机完成下载磁盘映像之后，开始下载到一台计算机的方式完成的。 计算机不需要等待数据流的开始，而是可以在数据流中的指定点加入下载。 这减少了等待开始下载的时间，特别是当传输的磁盘映像大时。 可以响应于网络性能的变化来执行压缩和连接选择。 还可以使用图像文件打包和错误管理技术，以及即时文件系统实例操作。

公开(公告)号：US6088778A

公开(公告)日：2000-07-11

申请号：US002970

申请日：1998-01-05

申请人： Eric J. Ruff ,  Robert S Raymond

发明人： Eric J. Ruff ,  Robert S Raymond

IPC分类号： G06F12/00 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G11B20/12 ,  G06F12/02

CPC分类号： G06F3/0601 ,  G06F3/0607 ,  G06F3/0644 ,  G06F3/0676 ,  G06F2003/0697

摘要： A method allows non-destructive manipulation of disk partitions defined by an IBM-compatible partition table. The disk partitions may be located on one or more disks attached to one or more disk drives. Each partition has an associated file system type. An interrupted manipulation may be resumed at a point in the progress of the manipulation near the point of interruption. Available manipulations include verifying the integrity of a partition's file system structures; displaying information about a partition; moving a partition to a different location; resizing a partition; and resizing the file system clusters. The resizing steps are illustrated with particular reference to file systems which use a file allocation table. The details required to perform these manipulations are attended to by an implementing program that requires only general direction from a user. Thus, the present invention provides a method that allows users who are unfamiliar with technical intricacies to easily manipulate IBM-compatible disk partitions, including extended partitions and logical partitions.

摘要翻译： 一种方法允许对由IBM兼容的分区表定义的磁盘分区进行非破坏性操作。 磁盘分区可能位于连接到一个或多个磁盘驱动器的一个或多个磁盘上。 每个分区都有一个关联的文件系统类型。 可以在中断点附近的操作进程中恢复中断的操作。 可用的操作包括验证分区的文件系统结构的完整性; 显示有关分区的信息; 将分区移动到不同的位置; 调整分区大小 并调整文件系统集群的大小。 具体参考使用文件分配表的文件系统来说明调整大小的步骤。 执行这些操作所需的细节由仅需要用户的一般方向的实现程序来处理。 因此，本发明提供了一种允许不熟悉技术复杂性的用户容易地操纵包括扩展分区和逻辑分区在内的IBM兼容磁盘分区的方法。

公开(公告)号：US06330653B1

公开(公告)日：2001-12-11

申请号：US09302748

申请日：1999-04-30

申请人： Golden E. Murray ,  David I. Marsh ,  Robert S. Raymond ,  Troy Millett ,  Damon Janis ,  Russell J. Marsh ,  Paul E. Madden

发明人： Golden E. Murray ,  David I. Marsh ,  Robert S. Raymond ,  Troy Millett ,  Damon Janis ,  Russell J. Marsh ,  Paul E. Madden

IPC分类号： G06F1200

CPC分类号： G06F3/0605 ,  G06F3/0626 ,  G06F3/0644 ,  G06F3/0676 ,  G06F17/30067

摘要： The present invention provides tools and techniques for manipulating virtual partitions in a virtual engine environment without necessarily committing each partition manipulation by actually modifying on-disk system structures. A virtual engine, virtual partitions, virtual drives, and other structures in the virtual engine environment permit users to experiment with different partition manipulations in a safe and efficient manner. A batch manager manages a resulting list of partition manipulation operations, which may be optimized. The batch list may also be executed automatically by a conventional partition manipulation engine without requiring additional user input at the end of each list entry. The present invention also provides the ability to manipulate extended partitions automatically and provides support for remote partition manipulation through a two-part user interface architecture.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了用于在虚拟引擎环境中操纵虚拟分区的工具和技术，而不必通过实际修改磁盘系统结构来实施每个分区操纵。 虚拟引擎环境中的虚拟引擎，虚拟分区，虚拟驱动器和其他结构允许用户以安全有效的方式对不同的分区操作进行实验。 批处理管理器管理可能优化的分区操作操作的结果列表。 批处理列表也可以由常规分区操纵引擎自动执行，而不需要在每个列表条目结尾处的附加用户输入。 本发明还提供了自动操纵扩展分区并通过两部分用户界面架构提供对远程分区操纵的支持的能力。

公开(公告)号：US06253300B1

公开(公告)日：2001-06-26

申请号：US09134883

申请日：1998-08-15

申请人： Andy V Lawrence ,  Robert S Raymond ,  Eric J Ruff

发明人： Andy V Lawrence ,  Robert S Raymond ,  Eric J Ruff

IPC分类号： G06F1202

CPC分类号： G06F3/0626 ,  G06F3/0611 ,  G06F3/0644 ,  G06F3/0676 ,  G11B20/12 ,  G11B20/1217 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/329 ,  G11B2220/20

摘要： Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are provided for manipulating partitions while imaging them to another disk on the same or another computer. By integrating partition manipulations with imaging, the invention reduces data movement. Rather than resizing a source partition in place and then imaging the resized source partition, for instance, one embodiment of the invention leaves the source partition intact and performs resizing on-the-fly by manipulating a memory-resident copy of the source partition's file system structures and then copying the modified structures and corresponding portions of the source user data to the target location. In addition to partition resizing, on-the-fly manipulations possible with the invention include cluster resizing, defragmentation, file relocation, and others. Novel image file formats suitable for on-the-fly manipulations are also described.

摘要翻译： 提供了方法，系统和制品，用于操作分区，同时将它们成像到相同或另一台计算机上的另一个磁盘。 通过将分区操作与成像集成，本发明减少了数据移动。 例如，本发明的一个实施例不是将源分区调整到适当位置，而是对调整大小的源分区进行成像，而不是使源分区保持原样，并通过操作源分区的文件系统的内存驻留副本来实时调整大小 结构，然后将修改的结构和源用户数据的对应部分复制到目标位置。 除了分区调整大小之外，本发明可能的即时操作包括集群调整大小，碎片整理，文件重定位等。 还描述了适用于即时操作的新型图像文件格式。

公开(公告)号：US6108759A

公开(公告)日：2000-08-22

申请号：US932530

申请日：1997-09-17

申请人： Niel Orcutt ,  Russell J. Marsh ,  Robert S. Raymond ,  Eric J. Ruff

发明人： Niel Orcutt ,  Russell J. Marsh ,  Robert S. Raymond ,  Eric J. Ruff

IPC分类号： G06F3/06 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G11B20/12 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/32 ,  G06F12/02

CPC分类号： G06F17/30067 ,  G06F3/0607 ,  G06F3/0643 ,  G06F3/0644 ,  G06F3/0674 ,  G11B20/1217 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/329 ,  G11B20/12 ,  G11B2220/20

摘要： Methods and systems are provided for copying, moving, and resizing disk partitions that contain advanced file systems. Unlike the conventional approach that relies on FDISK and FORMAT, the invention does not destroy user data by wiping the partition clean after data is copied to tape or other intermediate storage. Advanced file system features, including features such as relocatable file system structures, volume sets, suballocation, and database paradigm structures not found in many FAT file systems, are handled by the invention during "in place" partition manipulation.

摘要翻译： 提供了用于复制，移动和调整包含高级文件系统的磁盘分区的方法和系统。 与依赖于FDISK和FORMAT的常规方法不同，本发明不会在数据被复制到磁带或其他中间存储器之后通过擦拭分区清洁来破坏用户数据。 包括诸如可重定位的文件系统结构，卷集，子分配和在许多FAT文件系统中未找到的数据库范例结构的特征的高级文件系统特征在本地“处理”分区操作期间被处理。